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Clumsy

Clumsy Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Clumsy? [adj] not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?" [adj] lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair" [adj] showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf" [adj] difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; "an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Clumsy: awkward \| bunglesome \| bungling \| clunky \| cumbersome \| fumbling \| gawky \| ill-chosen \| inapt \| incompetent \| inept \| infelicitous \| ungainly \| unmanageable \| unskilled \| unwieldy Related Terms \| Find terms related to Clumsy: all thumbs \| awkward \| barbaric \| barbarous \| blunderheaded \| blundering \| boorish \| botched \| bovine \| bulky \| bumbling \| bungling \| butterfingered \| cacophonous \| careless \| cloddish \| clownish \| clumsy-fisted \| coarse \| contrary \| crosswise \| crude \| cumbersome \| cumbrous \| deficient \| discommodious \| doggerel \| Doric \| dysphemistic \| elephantine \| fingers all thumbs \| fumbling \| gauche \| gawkish \| gawky \| graceless \| gross \| half-assed \| ham-fisted \| ham-handed \| haphazard \| harsh \| heavy-handed \| hit-and-miss \| hit-or-miss \| hulking \| hulky \| impractical \| improper \| impure \| in bad taste \| incommodious \| inconcinnate \| inconcinnous \| inconvenient \| incorrect \| indecorous \| inelegant \| inept \| infelicitous \| left-hand \| left-handed \| loutish \| low \| lubberly \| lumbering \| lumpish \| lumpy \| maladroit \| massive \| massy \| messy \| oafish \| outlandish \| perverse \| ponderous \| promiscuous \| rude \| slipshod \| slipshoddy \| sloppy \| slovenly \| sluttish \| splay \| stiff \| tasteless \| troublesome \| uncourtly \| uncouth \| undignified \| uneuphonious \| unfelicitous \| ungainly \| ungraced \| ungraceful \| unhandy \| unhappy \| unmanageable \| unpolished \| unrefined \| unseemly \| untidy \| unwieldy \| vulgar \| wooden See Also \| Clumsy In Webster's Dictionary \Clum"sy\, a. [Compar. {Clumsier}; superl. {Clumsiest}.] [OE. clumsed benumbed, fr. clumsen to be benumbed; cf. Icel. klumsa lockjaw, dial. Sw. klummsen benumbed with cold. Cf. 1st {Clam}, and 1st {Clamp}.] 1. Stiff or benumbed, as with cold. [Obs.] 2. Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse. But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. --Dryden. Syn: See {Awkward}.

Clumsy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Clumsy?

[adj] not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"
[adj] lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"
[adj] showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
[adj] difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; "an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl"

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Clumsy In Webster's Dictionary

\Clum"sy\, a. [Compar. {Clumsier}; superl. {Clumsiest}.]
[OE. clumsed benumbed, fr. clumsen to be benumbed; cf. Icel.
klumsa lockjaw, dial. Sw. klummsen benumbed with cold. Cf.
1st {Clam}, and 1st {Clamp}.]
1. Stiff or benumbed, as with cold. [Obs.]

2. Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or
   readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy;
   unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as,
   a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a
   clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse.

         But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast
         shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. --Dryden.

Syn: See {Awkward}.

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